Players in italics improved their ranking on Friday
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The news at the start of the week is that Nicolas Almagro loses 21 points from a Challenger last year, allowing Greg to advance a place in the rankings, and Andy to get within 18 points of him. Also Florent Serra drops his points from the same event, so Andy also advances a place
Even better for Andy's ranking, Max Mirnyi drops his Nottingham finalist points and Richard Gasquet drops his Nottingam winners points, taking the two of them well off Andy's radar.
I hope no- one minds me starting this off this week.
Mind? I'm delighted! I haven't had time to do my spreadsheet (too busy sacrificing various animals and making new models) yet but will add my post tomorrow morning once I have.
Go Andy! Hopefully he can help us out by gaining a bucket load of points and rising up the rankings that way. (that would also make defending at Wimbledon less crucial)
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too busy sacrificing various animals and making new models
That's good. Initial targets are:
Simon & Serra at Halle - who just need to get to R2 to overtake. Neither play tomorrow.
Santoro at Halle - who needs to reach R3/QF. Not playing tomorrow either
Lopez at Queens - who needs to reach R4/QF. He's first on tomorrow, before Tim & Andre. Sharpen away!
Tim needs a bunch of pin work tomorrow too (check the thread)
On a more positive note, Andy's targets are:
A Quarter Final place, sends Andy up past Almagro, Chela, Malisse, Djokovic and Moya, none of whom are playing this week (don't you love it when the clay- courters don't turn up!
He'll also potentially pass Vliegen, Youzhny and Greg, depending on their results!
Remember, Quarter- final means getting past Blake in R3!
Queens is a field of 56, as opposed to the usual 32. So there's an extra round before the usual ATP first round: R1=R56, R2=R32, R3=R16, R4=R8=QF, R5=SF, R6=F. Even worse, there's no more points for Rounds 3- 6 than there are at Halle, which is a field of 32, so the guys at Queens need to win an extra match to get the same number of points: R16 is 20 points in both tournaments.
Fernando Verdasco OUt rd3, 20points (+5quali points) Dmitry Tursunov OUT qf, 55points - finally lost to Tim Paul-Henri Mathieu OUT rd1, 5points Paradorn Scrichapan OUT rd3, 20points Greg Rusedski OUT rd1, 5points Mikhail Youznhy OUT rd1, 5point Kristof Vliegen sf, 100points so far Florent Serra OUT rd1, 5points Andy Murray OUT rd1, 5points Max Mirnyi OUT rd3, 20points Gilles Simon OUT rd1, 5points Feliciano Lopez OUt rd1, 5points Fabrice Santoro OUT qf, 55points Robin Soderling OUT qf, 55points Richard Gasquet OUT rd2, 20points Daniele Bracciali OUT rd2, 10points Julien Bennetteau OUt rd1, 5points Arnaud ClementOUT rd2, 20points
Points at the end of the week:
Fernando Verdasco 1045(10) Dmitry Tursunov 980(40) Jose Acususo 975(0) Nicolas Massu 955(0) Paul-Henri Mathiey 920(0) Paradorn Scrichapan 845(0) Greg Rusedski 830(0) Carlos Moya 830(0) Mikhail Youzhny 830(0) Novak Djokovic 827(0) Xavier Malisse 826(0) Nicolas Almagro 818(-16) Juan Ignacio Chela 815(0) Fabrice Santoro 807(30) Andy Murray 802(0) Florent Serra 800(-6) Gilles Simon 791(0) Robin Soderling 788(40) Feliciano Lopez 785(0) Alberto Martin 734(0) Luis Horna 732(0) max Mirnyi 700(-100) Daniele Bracciali 699(0) Filippo Volandri 676(0) Julien Bennetteau 672(-10) Arnaud Clement 662(12) Augustin Calleri 652(0) Ivo Karlovic 631(-25) Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo 625(0) Richard Gasquet 590(-155)
-- Edited by imoen at 20:39, 2006-06-16
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Careful what you say Rob, you'll upset the delicate balance and/or cause offence to whoever-it-is-that-might-take-offence and then the pins won't work anymore
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Careful what you say Rob, you'll upset the delicate balance and/or cause offence to whoever-it-is-that-might-take-offence and then the pins won't work anymore
I think that's already happened. While the Halle live scores were down, our old friend Kristof Vliegen won, and has now overtaken Greg.